Pancakes a la Anyone Can Cook
As much as I enjoy combing through vintage cook books, I am modern enough to also like lurking on food blogs. Many of these break recipes down into steps, illustrating each with explanatory photographs. I thought this was a response to cooks who are maybe learning their way around the kitchen as adults, rather than as someone’s child apprentice.
Manning’s coffee was 33 cents per pound in the 1930s.
From 1908 until 1957, shoppers at Pike Place Market who smelled the transcendent aroma of freshly roasting coffee knew that the source of that olfactory pleasure was probably Manning’s. For nearly four decades, Manning’s provided market-goers with the beans and beverage that a subsequent and more famous flagship and delicious independent places now supply.